The Veterans Administration is currently embroiled in a sickening scandal over allegations that the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care system kept fraudulent records that delayed treatment for vets, up to 40 of whom may have died while waiting for care. This morning, on Fox &amp; Friends Sunday, co-host Tucker Carlson decided to show his deep concern for veterans by lying about President Obama in order to get off a sick burn.

The Veterans Administration is currently embroiled in a sickening scandal over allegations that the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care system kept fraudulent records that delayed treatment for vets, up to 40 of whom may have died while waiting for care. This morning, on Fox &amp; Friends Sunday, co-host Tucker Carlson decided to show his deep concern for veterans by lying about President Obama in order to get off a sick burn.

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The Veterans Administration is currently embroiled in a sickening scandal over allegations that the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care system kept fraudulent records that delayed treatment for vets, up to 40 of whom may have died while waiting for care. This morning, on Fox & Friends Sunday, co-host Tucker Carlson decided to show his deep concern for veterans by lying about President Obama in order to get off a sick burn. Again, it's nothing new to have a Fox News personality lie about something, but when the lie is used in such a sick, exploitative fashion, it bears calling out.

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Administrators at the Phoenix VA had been keeping two separate sets of appointment books, in order to make it appear that veterans were getting appointments in a timely fashion, when in reality, they were waiting months. According to CNN, as many as 40 patients died while on the fraudulent waiting list.

On Fox & Friends Sunday, Tucker Carlson took the opportunity to crack wise about President Obama and Don Sterling, telling viewers "There is still no public reaction from the President of the United States who oversees all of this, who took time out of his busy schedule to attack an NBA owner over comments he made that were ugly, but he hasn't taken any time to talk about veterans who died from neglect at the V.A."

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Hey, that's a good one, Tucker. He's right, President Obama did denounce Don Sterling over his racist remarks, at a joint press conference during his Asia trip. That was on April 27. Also on that Asia trip, at a joint press conference, the very next day, the President actually did offer a public reaction. Actually, he was responding to a question from Fox News' Ed Henry:

Fox News should insist that Carlson issue an immediate retraction and apology. Americans may disagree on a great many things, but caring for our veterans should never be used for cheap political quippery.

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The Phoenix story has lit a media fire under the issue of veterans’ access to care, but more than a year ago, the GAO reported on the same practices being alleged in Phoenix, and in a subsequent Congressional hearing, V.A. officials testified about deaths related to the long wait times.

The bureaucratic scandal involving the Veterans Administration and delays in care due to fraudulent wait lists continues be used, by some, as a vehicle for political attacks on President Obama. In a particularly cheap move at Tuesday's White House daily briefing, Fox News Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry tried to twist a quote from Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Il) to fit the narrative that the President hasn't made sufficient public comments about the scandal. Press Secretary Jay Carney responded by telling Henry that the quote doesn't back up what he's saying.

Someone on Fox News lied, which really only means it's a day ending in "y," but the substance of the lie is just further evidence of the deranged lengths to which conservatives will go in order to attack President Obama. On Thursday's edition of The Five, right before Andrea Tantaros said something even bat-shittier, co-host Eric Bolling told his audience that President Obama "was at a fundraiser last night," and said, of the kidnapped Nigerian girls, "I wish I had something I could do, I wish I could just do something." Here at The Daily Banter, we've already come up with a word for people whose first thought is to use those kidnapped girls as a political cudgel, and it applies here as well.

As the week began, another "Obamacare" horror story hit the press, instigating a fleet of outrage-pornographers and concern trolls across the political spectrum to resume its self-flagellation and screeching about the disastrous Affordable Care Act -- selectively forgetting about actual healthcare horror stories that existed before the law was implemented.

On Friday, President Obama signed a law that would block Hamid Aboutalebi from entering the U.S, as Iran's ambassador to the United Nations. Shockingly, Fox News journalist Megyn Kelly told a huge lie of omission (several, really) when she reported on the President's signing statement, and chewed it over with right-wing fanatic and New Black Panther Party case "whistleblower" J. Christian Adams of PJMedia.